Crystal meth users growing in numbers

Why do some people engage in the use of recreational drugs? Answering that would take more space than this post provides, and I'm sure each and every drug user has a "reason" for taking drugs. Do any of them matter? That's up to the drug user and their human reasoning ability (if it exists).

In recent times, the drug known as crystal meth (crystal methamphetamine) has become popular due to its lower cost, easy availability and the effects it has on the human body (c'mon, there must be some!). A recent study shows that crystal meth use may be higher than previously thought, and that its main user is often a young, poor, white man whose father is in prison. No surprise there.

In a recent study just published this past week in Addiction, it was found that 2.8 percent of those surveyed (a group of over 14,000 young people) said they used the drug in the past year while 1.3 percent used it in the past month. This was in a group of 18 to 1 year-olds taken in 2001 and 2002 (over five years old). Is it worse now? Probably.